Phoenix87ta:Seriously though, if the ability to use the Force comes down to a freaking special blood component, how the hell was there ever a Great Jedi Purge? You'd think with medical technology on par with bacta tanks, they'd be able to, I dunno, create new Jedi at will.

This is what is wrong with the prequels (outside of the editing, directing, story, and acting) is Lucas's sore need to have to explain every damn thing.

The amusing anecdote is that the guy who found this system gave his presentation about how he poured over thousands of pages of Kepler data to find the system. The guy next up on stage presented how he wrote a computer program and it had found hundreds of binaries already.

Binaries are actually more common than single star systems. It's also why we can accurately measure distances to other galaxies.

Binaries with rocky worlds in the habitable zone? Prob a bit more rare.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats:Has any super nerd ever come up with an explanation of where Star Wars takes place in relation to the real Universe?

I realize this is difficult given the iffy nature of any sort of continuity in that fictional universe, but still.

Because the people who maintain Star Wars continuity attempt to reconcile everything at face value, E.T. is from the Star Wars universe. The fact that E.T. sees Star Wars toys on Earth suggests prehistoric contact that the planted seeds of mythology that re-coalesced in the imagination of one George Lucas.

Phoenix87ta:Seriously though, if the ability to use the Force comes down to a freaking special blood component, how the hell was there ever a Great Jedi Purge? You'd think with medical technology on par with bacta tanks, they'd be able to, I dunno, create new Jedi at will.

/end nerd rant

I like the theory that the midichlorians don't CAUSE the Force, but are instead ATTRACTED to force sensitive people. The blood test is a way to find force sensitive people using midichlorians.

Phoenix87ta:TheManofPA: If you find a child whose mother was raped by the force, don't ask questions, just kill the boy. I know what you are thinking: No, he'll balance the force. Don't care, just kill him.

farking midichlorians.

Seriously though, if the ability to use the Force comes down to a freaking special blood component, how the hell was there ever a Great Jedi Purge? You'd think with medical technology on par with bacta tanks, they'd be able to, I dunno, create new Jedi at will.

/end nerd rant

The Star wars books can be hit or miss but Darth Plageus (sp?) is really good at retconning this into something not terrible. Honestly as a whole the book would have made a much better movie than the prequels. It is the story of Palpetine and his Sith Lord master who wants to be immortal and rule the galaxy from the shadows while Palp is emperor.

Nem Wan:TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Has any super nerd ever come up with an explanation of where Star Wars takes place in relation to the real Universe?

I realize this is difficult given the iffy nature of any sort of continuity in that fictional universe, but still.

Because the people who maintain Star Wars continuity attempt to reconcile everything at face value, E.T. is from the Star Wars universe. The fact that E.T. sees Star Wars toys on Earth suggests prehistoric contact that the planted seeds of mythology that re-coalesced in the imagination of one George Lucas.

That might actually be pretty close, if it's a full day after the explosion and most of the detritus is about ten billion miles away and fading. Background radiation heats stuff in space to 3 K, so if there's nothing left of Alderaan but a sprinkling of warm dust, then sure.